b'SYDNEY - BOSTON - FUKUOKA 2018 - 2019This year, students used Sydney, Boston and Fukuoka as laboratories for study. They examined the potential and impacts of transit-oriented densification in the Canterbury Station Precinct, one of Sydneys middle-ring suburban centres, located on the new Southwest Metro line. They postulated the new western Sydney airport development and the climate impacts of this burgeoning city growth around the proposed Western Sydney Airport and Sydneys future aerotropolis. This studio stakeholders.These infrastructure investmentswas part of the International Geodesign are often driven by time and cost imperativesCollaboration on climate change organisedExploring projects of this magnitude across often at the expense of the broader city-makingby Emeritus Professor Carl Steinitz, Harvardthree global cities not only inspires students opportunities such investment can release.Graduate School of Design with 55 universitiesbut also develops professionals that are adept Today, with alternative methods of procurementworldwide. Our UNSW students were the onlyat handling complex urban challenges.It is we need to rethink and challenge the keyparticipating university from Australia in thisevident from the projects profiled, that the drivers informing the planning, designing andglobal challenge.MUDD Program engenders robust strategic delivering of infrastructure.What if, movingthinking and critical discourse, guiding forward, every transport project was a city- Further afield, in our international studio instudents to propose urban design frameworks making opportunity? Boston, students examined the implicationsthat balance competing urban agendas with of the the network city potential with thevigorous analysis and objectivity. Instead of dividing communities andredevelopment of a fallow 110 ha brownfields leaving scarred urban landscapes, transportsite on the Massachusetts Turnpike and aTransport investment can serve as a catalyst interchanges can be reimagined as a seamfuture high-speed rail hub for Boston andfor city making, which this years student that joins, and an opportunity to create morelinking Harvard, MIT and Boston University.projects clearly demonstrate.If done well, it liveable places. This challenge requireshas the potential to transform communities, innovative design-led approaches, focused onAnd finally, the Fukuoka international studioand the portfolio of projects in the MUDD 20194integrated strategies for place-making.Urbanhosted by the Graduate School of Design,Yearbook captures a series of propositions designers are well positioned to lead thisKyushu University posed the reconstructiondemonstrating this, so we look forward challenge.Urban design spanning professionalof the Hakata waterfront in Fukuoka to meetto seeing how these graduates use their boundaries provides a unique opportunity tothe demands of booming trade, tourism,interdisciplinary skills, to transform our urban work across scales and to break down silos ofconventions and exhibitions in this gatewayenvironments and also the lives of city dwellers thinking.The leadership of urban designerscity to Japan from China, South Korea and thein the years to come.in reimagining transport hubs presents anworld.opportunity for interdisciplinary innovation and more considered urban development. Master of Urban Development & Design 2018-2019INTRO 8pt.indd 5 26/11/2019 4:11:23 PM'